The State vs. the Dead Body of Obediah Martin

Date: 
July 21, 1853

Deceased

Obediah Martin
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by the accidental turning over of a waggon and a saw log rolling on him

Coroner

Coroner: 
B. F. Montgomery
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in the road near Hugh Caldwell's
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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